Mathias Hasselmann <mathias@openismus.com> writes:
> Just to be sure we talk about the same topic: I assume the prohibition
> you talk about is something like "no use of threads in Postmaster"?
Correct.
> If that's the case: Are there some docs, mails, ... explaining the
> rationale behind this restriction? I could imagine your do not want
> random locking in the postmaster code?
Portability, irreproducible misbehavior, etc. Some trawling in the
pgsql-hackers archives should turn up previous discussions. For a
recent demonstration that wanting to avoid threads is not just idle
paranoia on our part, see
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2007-09/msg00194.php
regards, tom lane
